Re: Ajax via RSP/CGIDEV2

Aaron,
You couldn't be more correct. I like to first do it myself, and then if there's
some tool I can use to automate things, great I'm there. Since Ajax can be made
to work in many apps/webpages with just a few dozen lines of code, its worth it
to a developer to know how things are pieced together--by writing it themselves.
Then if you want to use a library that allows you to establish DIV or SPAN names
and link those to database fields, great! One toolkit/library I like is the YUI
(Yahoo's User Interface library) its pretty easy and has a small footprint. But
there's also Dojo--but Dojo, like a lot of Open Source, is a Resume tool for
recent college grads (you know "Hey Microsoft or Google, look what I can do!
Please Hire me.") But DOJO does do some pretty cool stuff.

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Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:53 AM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Ajax via RSP/CGIDEV2

One of the things that has amazed me about all these Ajax posts is that

everyone is writing (or attempting to write) the client-side javascript code
themselves. WHY? 

I see where you are coming from Walden and agree with you that a library
should be use.  But also understand that this is a new technology that does
not have all of the wrinkles worked out yet and for a CGI programmer to have
the knowledge of how the grears work under the covers is a great
ace-in-your-pocket to have when the app breaks.

Aaron Bartell